Rally attire
Posted by Racinkid13
Max Professional Moderator Location: Durham, NC Join Date: 02/04/2009 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 611 Rally Car: 1983 MKI GTI |
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Thanks for the link racinkid! Followed the traffic here and am looking forward to hanging out on this forum a bit more. I'm a daily rally driver myself... no gravel road is safe from me and my sweet ass 96 Corolla DX
That's really why I made this sticker http://gearheadshirts.com/products/307381-wrc-workday-rushour-champion-sticker-2-pack perhaps yall would like it too.  Gearhead Shirts - www.gearheadshirts.com Ian Jennings Berthoud, CO |
John Vanlandingham Mega Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Hi Gearheadshirt. Nice to welcome you aboard. Around here we have one hard and fast rule: a real name and a real location somewhere in the name or sidebar or signature. It works really well, only a couple of stupid fucks refuse mainly because of arrested development. So please go back, fill out your correct info and show us some more stuff. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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I am indeed a real person.
Thanks John.Gearhead Shirts - www.gearheadshirts.com Ian Jennings Berthoud, CO |
Andrew Steere Professional Moderator Location: South Central Nude Hamster Join Date: 12/29/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 2,008 Rally Car: too rich for my blood, share a LeMons car |
Take the info in your sig and put it in your profile and you should be all set. Thanks! Andrew Steere Lyndeborough, NH KB1PJY |
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Just wanted to pop back into this thread and update with some more rally bidness we've got for sale:
Vintage mini monte carlo shirt. The first in a line of vintage rally shirts we would like to do: http://gearheadshirts.com/products/637801-monte-carlo-mini-1967 
Subaru 22B http://gearheadshirts.com/products/394984-subaru-impreza-22b-shirt 
and.. not specifically rally but I think it applies
http://gearheadshirts.com/products/606173-petrol-sexual-sticker  Gearhead Shirts - www.gearheadshirts.com Ian Jennings Berthoud, CO |
John Vanlandingham Mega Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
coupla nice shirts, 'cept the crank and piston logo are two stroke crank and pistons, and those vastly superior designs don't twirl around doing nothing half the time and they don't fire every now and then. And they make better power, that is more torque at lower rpm without all the crutches modern 4 strokes seem to need to make any power like all those superfulous valves, cams, valve springs, turbochargers, ECUs. Just what you see. Kinda ironic seeing the Mini--the good one, the REAL one and a two stroke crank and piston---way back then at the beginning of time little 850cc two strokes would beat everythibng the best Britsh and german Engineers could do: full 3,0 liter, twin cams, 3 twin choke Webers....factory efforts all fell to the mighty 850cc Saab---even on the full Monte Carlo Gran Priz circuit they were powerless against the little Saab...Mini dethroned the 850 Saab but when faced with the newer 96 with the big nasty pushrod V4, Mini never won again. You need a Saab V4 T-shirt, one of the first "Homologation Specials" John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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First off.. I'm not sure how you make the distinction of our piston being a 2 stroke piston... it's just a piston to me. I'd enjoy it if you would point me in the direction of something that explains the difference in the pistons.
Secondly.. minis were two stroke? This is news to me. Thirdly.. we have a SAAB shirt.. sadly not a 96 but that's definitely coming. http://gearheadshirts.com/products/472087-saab-99-turbo-shirt 
My goal is to someday own a replica of every car in the lineup of the 63 Monte Carlo.. but for now I'll just keep making them as shirts Gearhead Shirts - www.gearheadshirts.com Ian Jennings Berthoud, CO |
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Oh wait.. i get it.. you're saying the mini is weak compared to the two stroke of the Saab 96.. I get it now. Awesome. I like Saabs AND Minis. I try and respect all makes.. especially ones that have a winning rally lineage.
I agree with the 96 V4 idea though.. it will for sure be a greetings from monte carlo shirt at some point. I ALMOST bought a 95 last year for a sweet deal.. if I would have gotten it I probably would have ended up trading it for a 96 anyway Gearhead Shirts - www.gearheadshirts.com Ian Jennings Berthoud, CO |
John Vanlandingham Mega Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Well 95 was run in the 1961 Monte Carlo since Saab had made a new 4 speed box and they had begun producing the new 95 in August '59 (only 40 in '59), and they weren't sure if they'd have the 5000 96s with the new 4 speed built to qualify for homologation done by 1 Jan 1961, so they prepped a 95 for Carlsson...As it transpired, they had made 5000 in time but ran the 95 anyway.. at an event fawked up by bizarre handicapping, the Saab finished 4th behind 3 Panhards... In any case, 96s are just too cool, too damn good to bother with the 95 and the junk Armstrong knee action shocks..You see in the results for Mt Hood how Garth in his extremely mild motor still beats piles of modern turbo 4wd cars and is nipping at the heels of much more modern 2wd cars with much larger engines. And they're few things easier to mod.. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
Tyler Estes Senior Moderator Location: Blackwater, Missouri Join Date: 05/24/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 164 Rally Car: My PC. |
John was saying that the Mini was good and won approximately three fuckloads of rallies until Saab came along and killed it's boner. Both great cars. And also, holy shit is that Saab shirt awesome. I went on ASAP and bought that shizz along with the E30 one. Something about something....dirt. |
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Tyler Estes Senior Moderator Location: Blackwater, Missouri Join Date: 05/24/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 164 Rally Car: My PC. |
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